Well talk to him. And the mother of all fallon skits. Michelle obama back on the tonight show and back on the dance floor. Evolution of mom dancing the sequel, the internet on fire today friday, april 3, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning everyone. Welcome to today on a friday. Matt has the morning off. Let there be mom dancing. I want to grab my pink sweater set and let it rock. So good its unbelievable. Continues to impress. Jimmy fallon, more viral videos from him. Well show you more of the highlights from mom dancing in a moment. Our top story the dangerous storm system racing across the south spawning tornados, heavy rain and flooding. Al roker is here. Its a dangerous changeable situation. Lets look at yesterday. This is from la beck county, kansas, this tornado not hitting the ground but it shows you just the power of this system and what is the shape of things to come. We go to
Along the southeast coast the danger is rip currents. Lifeguards have rescued hundreds from the water. And today one notable waterspout in Fort Lauderdale. Mark straussman has more on that. Underwater tornado. Beachgoers with smart phones recorded this frightening moment of a waterspout that made landfall. It pushed an inflatable bounce house end over end on Fort Lauderdale beach and tossed it 20 feet in the air. Three children were hurt one seriously. Up and down Floridas Atlantic coast the National Weather service issued red flag warnings of rough surf and rip currents that created dangerous swimming conditions. Lifeguards have rescued more than 400 people since sunday. Three men have drowned. One yesterday, two more today. People waving and the lifeguard out there and then two much them went out then three of them then four. And i think they were getting stuck. Reporter these patrol officials said yesterdays drowning occurred in an unguarded area of the beach. Theyre urging swimmers
And the mother of all fallon skits. Michelle obama back on the tonight show and back on the dance floor. Evolution of mom dancing the sequel sets the internet on floor this friday april 3rd. 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday. Matt has the morning off. Let there be mom dancing. I want to grab my chinos and sweater set. It continues. Jimmy fallon and more viral videos. We will show you more highlights in a moment. The storm goes across the south and al roker is here. What can you tell us . This is a changeable situation. Lets look at what happens in kansas. This tornado not hitting the ground but it showing you the power of this system. In louisville this is where the danger spot it. Massive flooding. High water rescues and apartment complexes that are being evacuated as we speak. I65 has been shut down and they are evacuating. It is a mess and we
One love and one love president obama stops in jamaica. Today, april 9, 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, Everyone Welcome to today on a thursday morning. We probably should start the show this way every day. We will have to play that president obama story more often because it gives us an excuse to play bab marley. Severe weather throwing overnight of tornadoes, rain hail dylan is in following all of it. We saw tornadoes, hail we had flash flooding. Take a look at this video from deerhead kansas. You can see obviously a 71 el cloud. Youtosee that rainbow right there. Unbelievable video from a more rural area from southern kansas right on the border of oklahoma. So there were no damage reports because it was obviously in that rural area. Now in missouri we saw more hail than anything else. We have reports of hail two to three inches in diameter winds toppling trees, power lines, tearing the rooves off some building. We a
Kids. The next thing you know the little boy was at the bottom of the pool. My husband pulled him up from the bottom. Reporter her husband doug pierce says he was nearby when a lifeguard alerted him to a boy at the bottom of the pool. Pierce and the lifeguard jumped in. Pierce got there first. He wasnt breathing. So we started compressions and gave some breaths and finally he started choking up. He had a lot of food and water that came out. Reporter a nurse at inova helped pierce with cpr. When i heard him yell and saw him dive under, i realized something was wrong. Reporter the boy finally started breathing and was tape to the hospital. Meanwhile pierce is modest. I was pretty calm because something just said he was going to be all right. There was a reason that he was there at this point in time. Reporter that reason it seems was to save a life, though the boys uncle still wonders why the two lifeguards werent quicker to act. What is a lifeguards job, to call 911 or to react on scene